“You whom I could not save,” Czesław Miłosz implores, “Listen to me” (ll. 1–2). In classical tradition, a dedication is a formal act, a delineation of space in response to loss. The poet offers up Warsaw to the memory of… Read More ›
moral poetry
The Fireside Poets
The Romantic view of the poet as a rebellious visionary whose work cuts across the grain of popular taste does not take into account the other strain in nineteenth-century poetry that confirmed cultural norms and rewarded writers who appealed to… Read More ›
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